[Distutils] PEP 566 - metadata 1.3 changes

[Alex Grönholm]

+1 from me. While I dislike the fact that "2.0" was put to use 
prematurely, using "2.1" is still less confusing than going from 2.0 to 1.3.


Nick Coghlan kirjoitti 20.01.2018 klo 05:07:
> On 19 January 2018 at 00:14, Joni Orponen <j.orponen at 4teamwork.ch> wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 5:58 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Given that, I think it would be reasonable to finally Withdraw PEP 426
>>> (rather than continuing to defer it), and have PEP 566 define metadata
>>> version 2.1, so that it's unambiguously the latest metadata version.
>> Jump straight to 3.0 to clear out any confusion and/or ambiguity on the next
>> backwards-incompatible one?
> While we could do that, wheel's use of "2.0" actually stems from early
> drafts of PEP 426, and PEP 566 *is* backwards compatible with that.
>
> So I like 2.1 - higher than everything previously used, but an
> incremental update to the early versions of 426 before we/I started
> imagining a ground up redesign of the metadata definition.
>
> Cheers,
> Nick.
>